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(No Model.)

f H. GREEN( LOOP FASTENER.. No. 502,962. Y l Patented Aug. 8 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN GREEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LOOP-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 502,962, dated August 8, 1893.

Application tiled February 23, 1893. Serial No. 463,336. (No model.)

the fabric and at the Sametime shall hold securely the cord or elastic of which the loop is formed.

In the drawings: Figure l is a perspective view of one part of my improved fastener. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the other part of the same. Fig. 3 is an under side view of that part of the fastener, which is shown in Fig. 1, with a loop secured thereto. Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the fastener, the parts being represented as assembled and securing a loop to a piece of fabric. Fig. 5 is a vertical central sectionthrou gh the improved fastener to illustrate a slight change of form.

As represented in the drawings the fastener is composed of a burr A to which the loop is directly secured and which is adapted to lie against the one side of the fabric, and a head B which lies against the opposite side of the fabric and holds the burr A thereto. The

burr A is struck up or molded from a piece of with a shank b to pass through the fabric and through the eye a and to be swaged down to Vof the fabric.

hold the two together firmly on opposite sides It is obvious that instead of forming a shank on the burr itself, the burr A might be formed with the shank, as shown in Fig. 5,--in which case the head B is an ordinary washer.

In the use of my device the loop C is first secured firmly to the burr A, in the manner described, and then the latter is secured to Y the fabric by means of the head B. Not only is the loop firmly held by the burr A but the latter is held so securely tothe fabric that the fabric itself will give way before the burr will separate from Vthe head B. This construction aifords a much stronger fastening for the loop thanif the part A were provided with prongs to penetrate the cloth, inasmuch as if any strain is put upon such a fastener which tends to pull it laterally away from the fabric such prongs are apt to pull out or cut the fabric, while in the present device there is no such possibility.

I clairn as my inventionl. Aloop fastener composed of a burr A having prongs a3, a3, adapted to be turned down upon the loop to hold the same, anda head B to cooperate with said burr A and secure the same to the fabric, the said burr and head being united by a shank, substantially as shown and described.

2. A loop fastener composed of a burr A having the body a with acentral aperture a', an extension a2, and prongs a3, a3, to hold the loop, and a head B having a shank h to pass through the fabric and the aperture a of the part A and to be swaged down to hold the two iirmiy together on opposite sides of the fabric, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERMAN GREEN.

Witnesses:

A. N. JESBERA, A. WIDDER. 

